Soil & Soil Judging Jeopardy

Jeopardy With your host, Mr. C “Soils”

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If you have an original topsoil thickness of 12 inches, and a current topsoil thickness of 13 inches, what is you soil past erosion classification and is it a limiting factor? Deposition, non-limiting??

What are the 5 textural group classes and tell which ones are limiting and which ones are non-limiting? Coarse (L), moderately coarse (L), medium (N), moderately fine (N), fine (L) ??

If you have an original topsoil thickness of 12 inches, and a current topsoil thickness of 11 inches, what is you soil past erosion % and classification and is it a limiting factor ? About 8-9% which is none to slight, non- limiting??

When would you use occasional soil conserving crops in rotation Class 1 & 2 soils??

Name 5 characteristics that soil texture affect. Moisture holding capacity, permaeability, the capacity to hold and furnish nutrients, tilth, erosion??

A moistened soil forms a ribbon and the ribbon is 1-2 inches, what is this soil. Moderately fine or silty clay??

How do you determine permeability. ?

How do you determine surface runoff? ?

A soil distane = 50 ft and the difference in height is 3 ft, what is the slope? 6%??

Describe a land capability class 6. ?

Fertility Treatment question? ?

What are 7 of the 10 essential elements –Carbon (C) Hydrogen (H) Oxygen (O) –Phosphorus (P) Potash (K) Nitrogen (N) –Sulfur (S) Calcium (Ca) Iron (Fe) –Magnesium (Mg) ? ?

What’s photosynthesis? ?

What is respiration? ?

Approximately ____% of weight of plants comes from products of photosynthesis 95%??

What two categories of texture are not limiting Medium and moderately fine??

When would you use frequent soil conserving crops in rotation? Class 3 & 4 soils??

Name 4 of the seven soil structure categories. (not texture) Single grain, crumb or granular, blocky, prismatic, columnur, platy, massive??

What are 3 mechanical erosion treatments and when would you use these? ?

Name four vegetative treatments and explain them. ?

Soil and Mr. C. are both old but how old is Mr. C.? Is Climate a limiting factor in Eastern SD? How do you detemine If the water table is a limiting factor? ?

What does a dark brown or black soil tell us? That soil Is high in organic material or had a dark parent material??

What does a bluish gray color of the soil tell us? That the soil is lacking oxygen which indicates poor drainage??

Which category of stoniness, permeability, and surface runoff are limiting? ?

What are 3 micronutrients? ?

Final Jeopardy!! Category: soil judging and classes

Classify the following Land into its capability class. This land is a moderately good land that can be cultivated safely with intensive treatments, yet it has severe limitations or hazards due to land characteristics. Exp. Coarse soil with moderately deep soil & moderate erosion, 6-9% slope, and fairly rapid surface runoff or permeability. What is a Class III soil?

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